Why does PUBG totally deserve to sue Fortnite?

Immediately after PUBG Corp Official announcement of the lawsuit Epic Games and Fortnite, the gaming community has entered into extremely heated debates.. Some say PUBG It’s simply because Fortnite is becoming their big competitor, others are just giving up because of the format Battle Royale However, contrary to common opinion, the reason PUBG Corp filed a lawsuit against its own opponent lies in a completely different aspect. On top of that, they’re not suing because Fortnite is a Battle Royale game.. they’re suing for Epic Games’ past actions.
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Epic Games as the owner of Unreal Engine 4 – the engine is being used by PUBG, has cooperated and supported for Bluehole during game development. This relationship of Epic Games is as simple as any relationship before other developments. There Epic Games will allow developers to use its Unreal Engine 4 for free during game production. Until that game officially enters the business phase and has the first $3,000 in sales, they will have to pay Epic Games 5% of the revenue each quarter. At the same time, Epic Games will have to support and answer developers to help them use Unreal Engine 4 most effectively. That relationship is a relationship between a seller and a buyer, between a supplier and its customer..

That’s exactly what Epic Games did to Bluehole during the development of PUBG. Basically, Bluehole will ask questions like “If using feature A, system B into the game.. will Unreal Engine 4 be able to meet it?”. Epic Games will then answer these questions to help developers apply those features to the game through Unreal Engine 4.
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The story would be nothing if shortly after PUBG became famous, Epic Games suddenly added a Battle Royale mode to Fortnite – a game that was thought to be “dead”. For those of you who don’t know, Fortnite was first announced in 2011, which is 7 years ago. At that time, the original version aimed at a completely different gameplay when it allowed gamers to exploit resources and build buildings to fight off waves of Zombies over time. However, right after releasing the first trailer, Fortnite suddenly disappeared and was almost not mentioned by Epic Games for a long time. Even during Fortnite’s disappearance, Epic Games has many other projects to offer.

However, in June last year when PUBG became famous, Epic Games suddenly announced that Fortnite would be officially released after 7 years without mentioning its child. And just 3 months later, the game company abandoned the original game mode and added the Battle Royale format. You probably remember right after that, a representative of Bluehole immediately expressed concern about the actions of Epic Games … a concern that many people misunderstood the cause.
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Fortnite is a game that goes in the direction of Zombie goalkeeper.​

According to Bluehole, with Epic Games having collaborated with me in the use of Unreal Engine 4, thereby knowing the mechanics and features of PUBG during development, the act of releasing a similar Battle Royale product right after that it was really… shady. Imagine when you are making a product of your own and using a certain tool to do it. You pay a large sum of money to the seller of the tool and in return they support you in the development process. You exchange your ideas to get the best support from them, but soon they suddenly “fork” and release a product that closely resembles, even competes directly with yours. Friend. If you were in such a situation, what would you think? That is also exactly the perspective from PUBG’s side when Bluehole feels that Epic Games’ actions are not beautiful, if not shady – The reason for them to take their opponents to court.
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All in all, Bluehole sued Epic Games and Fortnite not because of their Battle Royale style. In the past, PUBG creator Brendan Greene has said that he is completely welcome to other Battle Royale games, as long as they have their own ideas to help the genre grow. Bluehole sued for what makes Fortnite, the content deep inside that game, most likely taken from the very idea that Bluehole shared with Epic Games when it was still developing PUBG. If Epic Games wasn’t the owner of Unreal Engine 4 and Fortnite was still following the same old style as it was 7 years ago… then perhaps this story would have gone in a completely different direction.​